Britain:A photograph owned by Sir Elton John and seized as part of a child pornography investigation is not an indecent image, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.
The image of two naked girls, taken by US photographer Nan Goldin, was seized last month, just before it was due to go on display at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, northeast England.
Klara and Edda Belly-Dancing 1998, was among 149 Goldin images owned by Sir Elton and destined for display at the Baltic.
The CPS first considered the image in 2001, when it was deemed not to be indecent.
Explaining yesterday's decision, Kerrie Bell, head of the CPS Northumbria South Unit, said: "In order to prove that the photograph is indecent we must be satisfied that contemporary standards of propriety are so different now to what they were in 2001, that it is more likely than not that a court will conclude that the photograph is indecent. I am not satisfied that is the case."
- (PA)